Amazon CloudWatch Pricing

With Amazon CloudWatch, there is no up-front commitment or minimum fee; you simply pay for what you use. You will be charged at the end of the month for your usage.

Free Tier

You can get started with Amazon CloudWatch for free. Most AWS Services (EC2, S3, Kinesis, etc.) vend metrics automatically for free to CloudWatch. Many applications should be able to operate within these free tier limits. You can learn more about AWS Free Tier here.

Metrics

Basic Monitoring Metrics (at 5-minute frequency)

10 Detailed Monitoring Metrics (at 1-minute frequency)

1 Million API requests (not applicable to GetMetricData)

Dashboard

3 Dashboards for up to 50 metrics per month

Alarms

10 Alarms (not applicable to high-resolution alarms)

Logs

5GB Data (ingestion and archive storage)

Events

All events except custom events are included

Paid Tier

There is no up-front commitment or minimum fee. You simply pay for what you use and will be charged at the end of the month for your usage.

US East (N. Virginia)

Detailed Monitoring at $2.10 down to $0.14 per instance per month at 1-minute frequency priced as 7 custom metrics per EC2 instance, prorated by the hour and metered only when the instance sends metrics to CloudWatch.

US East (Ohio)

Detailed Monitoring at $2.10 down to $0.14 per instance per month at 1-minute frequency priced as 7 custom metrics per EC2 instance, prorated by the hour and metered only when the instance sends metrics to CloudWatch.

US West (N. California)

Detailed Monitoring at $2.10 down to $0.14 per instance per month at 1-minute frequency priced as 7 custom metrics per EC2 instance, prorated by the hour and metered only when the instance sends metrics to CloudWatch.

US West (Oregon)

Detailed Monitoring at $2.10 down to $0.14 per instance per month at 1-minute frequency priced as 7 custom metrics per EC2 instance, prorated by the hour and metered only when the instance sends metrics to CloudWatch.

Canada (Central)

Detailed Monitoring at $2.10 down to $0.14 per instance per month at 1-minute frequency priced as 7 custom metrics per EC2 instance, prorated by the hour and metered only when the instance sends metrics to CloudWatch.

South America (Sao Paulo)

Detailed Monitoring at $2.10 down to $0.14 per instance per month at 1-minute frequency priced as 7 custom metrics per EC2 instance, prorated by the hour and metered only when the instance sends metrics to CloudWatch.

AWS GovCloud (US)

Detailed Monitoring at $2.10 down to $0.14 per instance per month at 1-minute frequency priced as 7 custom metrics per EC2 instance, prorated by the hour and metered only when the instance sends metrics to CloudWatch.

Asia Pacific (Mumbai)

Detailed Monitoring at $2.10 down to $0.14 per instance per month at 1-minute frequency priced as 7 custom metrics per EC2 instance, prorated by the hour and metered only when the instance sends metrics to CloudWatch.

Asia Pacific (Osaka-Local)

Detailed Monitoring at $2.10 down to $0.14 per instance per month at 1-minute frequency priced as 7 custom metrics per EC2 instance, prorated by the hour and metered only when the instance sends metrics to CloudWatch.

Asia Pacific (Seoul)

Detailed Monitoring at $2.10 down to $0.14 per instance per month at 1-minute frequency priced as 7 custom metrics per EC2 instance, prorated by the hour and metered only when the instance sends metrics to CloudWatch.

Asia Pacific (Singapore)

Detailed Monitoring at $2.10 down to $0.14 per instance per month at 1-minute frequency priced as 7 custom metrics per EC2 instance, prorated by the hour and metered only when the instance sends metrics to CloudWatch.

Asia Pacific (Sydney)

Detailed Monitoring at $2.10 down to $0.14 per instance per month at 1-minute frequency priced as 7 custom metrics per EC2 instance, prorated by the hour and metered only when the instance sends metrics to CloudWatch.

Asia Pacific (Tokyo)

Detailed Monitoring at $2.10 down to $0.14 per instance per month at 1-minute frequency priced as 7 custom metrics per EC2 instance, prorated by the hour and metered only when the instance sends metrics to CloudWatch.

EU (Frankfurt)

Detailed Monitoring at $2.10 down to $0.14 per instance per month at 1-minute frequency priced as 7 custom metrics per EC2 instance, prorated by the hour and metered only when the instance sends metrics to CloudWatch.

EU (Ireland)

Detailed Monitoring at $2.10 down to $0.14 per instance per month at 1-minute frequency priced as 7 custom metrics per EC2 instance, prorated by the hour and metered only when the instance sends metrics to CloudWatch.

EU (London)

Detailed Monitoring at $2.10 down to $0.14 per instance per month at 1-minute frequency priced as 7 custom metrics per EC2 instance, prorated by the hour and metered only when the instance sends metrics to CloudWatch.

EU (Paris)

Detailed Monitoring at $2.10 down to $0.14 per instance per month at 1-minute frequency priced as 7 custom metrics per EC2 instance, prorated by the hour and metered only when the instance sends metrics to CloudWatch.

If you are monitoring HTTP 2xx, 3xx & 4xx response codes using web application access logs 24x7 for one 30-day month, by sending 1GB per day of ingested log data, monitoring for HTTP responses, and archiving the data for one month, your charges would be as follows: